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Mini Stained Glass Windows


SewMini

All of the windows in the kitchen are custom so that's what I've been working on this weekend. I was trying to think of what to do with these skinny windows I put on either side of the chimney. I thought a stained glass window would look cool. I tried free handing them and it looked terrible. I can draw straight, plumb lines all day long but drawing something creative? Yeahhhhh, not so much. So trip photography to the rescue! In yet another homage to Spain, I used a portion of a photo that DH took of the stained glass ceiling in the Palau de la Musica in Barcelona to make my stained glass design (perhaps this house wants to be Spanish lol).

I laid some tissue paper over the photo while it was displaying on my phone and it acted like a light box. I traced the lead lines onto the tissue paper. Then I laid down the tissue paper on some white matboard and laid acetate over that. Thanks to having a nail art obsessed daughter in the house, I have approximately 80000 bottles of nail polish so I used a black nail art pen to draw out the lead lines and then filled in the spaces with nail color. I had originally tried to use markers but didn't like the streaks. The lead lines aren't perfect if you get super close but from a bit back they work great!

 

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I was truly flying by the seat of my pants on this one. I had purchased a pack of 20 acetate sheets so I had enough to experiment. Using the nail polish was really an act of desperation lol. I needed small amount of a whole lot of colors. I rifled through my daughters art supplies and didnt find what I needed. Then I remembered the bucket of nail polish. And I do mean BUCKET. Thankfully all the unusual colored ones were still good so nail polish it was!

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23 hours ago, SewMini said:

I was truly flying by the seat of my pants on this one. I had purchased a pack of 20 acetate sheets so I had enough to experiment. Using the nail polish was really an act of desperation lol. I needed small amount of a whole lot of colors. I rifled through my daughters art supplies and didnt find what I needed. Then I remembered the bucket of nail polish. And I do mean BUCKET. Thankfully all the unusual colored ones were still good so nail polish it was!

looks like a real glass if you ask me. Nevertheless, great work. Too much efforts but worth it IMO

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